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...listed Mbeki's questioning of the link between HIV and AIDS, his inept ministers, corruption that she said "was everywhere you look," his support for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe ("so distressing") and the black empowerment program which, while intended to help those discriminated against under apartheid, has, she claimed, succeeded only in making a few of the politically connected very rich, and had "driven one million white South Africans out of the country, skilled people we needed...
What has been the best way to make money in 2008? In a word: health care. Big percentage gainers include Idenix Pharmaceuticals, a maker of hepatitis and HIV treatments (up 122%, to $5.99); Thoratec, a developer of therapies for heart disease (up 60%, to $29.16); Almost Family, a home-health-care services provider (up 132%, to $45.10); and Sequenom, which does genetic testing (up 93%, to $18.45). Some larger-cap players are also up significantly, if not quite as spectacularly: Barr Pharmaceuticals has gained 23%, and Amgen...
...some communities in Africa, parents still believe their children are dying not from AIDS, but from witchcraft. Meanwhile, many HIV activists encourage medical doctors in these contexts to rely on the assistance of traditional healers (who are known to spread the myth that sleeping with a virgin cures diseases. While one NGO in Zimbabwe has already tried to debunk that myth, it is astonishing that donors spend millions of dollars on expensive HIV testing and (comparably) miniscule resources are spent on providing vital information to containing the spread of AIDS...
Although hostility to some information (like sex education) is nothing new, we now know how high the real costs of inaction are. When teenage girls were told in a randomized experiment in Kenya that older men are more likely to be HIV-positive than boys, they made better choices and tried to avoid richer but more dangerous partners...
Under South Africa’s former president, hundreds of thousands people died, according to a Harvard study, because of the denial that HIV is transferred from mothers to their babies (and the refusal to provide appropriate drugs). Still, President Mbeki’s supporters maintained that he was defending the country from the prejudiced ideas inherent in Western science...